One of the men who helped rescue Panch from the fiery crash was journeyman driver Tiny Lund, who didn’t have a ride for the Daytona 500.

While in the hospital with severe burns, Panch asked Lund to drive his Wood Brothers car in the Daytona 500. With his name written on duct tape and covering Panch’s name on the driver-side door, Lund won the Daytona 500 with Leonard Wood as his crew chief. It was Lund’s first career victory.

“It was our first Daytona win. … It was a very exciting win,” Leonard Wood said. “It was a Cinderella story for sure.”

The history of Wood Brothers Racing is an inspiring story for a team that began NASCAR racing in 1950 and has been a staple of the sport ever since.

Winning the 1963 Daytona 500 has become a symbol for what the Wood Brothers are all about. They have won 98 Cup races with 18 different drivers, many in cars built by Leonard Wood.

So when Wood was announced as one of five members of the 2013 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, he had one more car to build.

Wood, 78, built a replica of the 1963 Ford Galaxie that Lund drove to victory in the Daytona 500. The car will be part of his display after his induction Friday night (7:30 p.m., Speed). He will be inducted with 1989 champion Rusty Wallace, 1950s champions Buck Baker and Herb Thomas and former car owner and driver Cotton Owens.

“I’m very happy that they chose me to go in,” said Wood, whose brother, Glen, was inducted last year. “You never know about these things. I’m very honored and excited. … You accomplish things during your racing career and you look back at a lot of the exciting moments.

“It’s so rewarding that somebody recognized what you did and you get to relive it all over again.”

Wood has been able to relive that 1963 Daytona 500 victory thanks to his induction.

With the help of nephews Len and Eddie Wood, who currently run the team, Leonard has rebuilt that winning car to startling detail.

They bought a passenger 1963 Ford Galaxie and turned it into a racecar just as Leonard did 50 years ago.

“I could have built a motor myself but they wanted Holman Moody to build it so it would be a Holman Moody motor like it was,” he said.

It was a nine-month project. Leonard built the spindles for the car that originally were designed so the team could run the entire race on one set of tires.

“Your memory goes bad, but we had a bunch of pictures to tell how it was,” Leonard said. “A lot of it I still knew from memory what I needed to do to it.”

When his memory was foggy, photos helped create the replica, right down to rips in the roll-bar padding to how the lettering was done on the duct tape covering Panch’s name.

“The back glass straps were wrapped in tape and it was wrapped in a certain angle in the picture, so even the wrapping of the tape is at the same angle as it was in 1963,” Wood said. “It’s all very special.”

Wood said the whole experience has been rewarding.

“It’s been very exciting,” Wood said. “It brings back all the memories of the day we won the race.

“It was forgotten and all of a sudden here we are with people talking about it and observing the car that won the Daytona 500.”

The car and his induction will have people talking about the history of the Wood Brothers once again.

Their first driver was Glen, who was inducted into the Hall’s third class a year ago. He won the team’s first race in 1960. Their latest victory came in 2011 when 20-year-old Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500.

Leonard has been there for it all. He has been there for the 43 wins by David Pearson and victories by Neil Bonnett, Cale Yarborough, A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney. He has celebrated five times in Daytona 500 victory lane.

He is credited with revolutionizing pit stops with lightweight jacks and gravity-based fuel cans that worked more efficiently.

As a Hall of Famer, Wood knows that his story won’t be forgotten. Fans will see his 1963 Daytona 500 replica and learn.

“When you go in a Smithsonian, you read articles about certain people,” Wood said. “It’s kind of cool that people are going to be reading articles about what you did. That’s pretty special.”